Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
6-2015
Abstract
Because of a projected surge of several billion urban inhabitants by mid-century, a rising urgency exists to advance local and strategically deployed measures intended to ameliorate negative consequences on urban climate (e.g., heat stress, poor air quality, energy/water availability). Here we highlight the importance of incorporating scale-dependent built environment induced solutions within the broader umbrella of urban sustainability outcomes, thereby accounting for fundamental physical principles. Contemporary and future design of settlements demands cooperative participation between planners, architects, and relevant stakeholders, with the urban and global climate community, which recognizes the complexity of the physical systems involved and is ideally fit to quantitatively examine the viability of proposed solutions. Such participatory efforts can aid the development of locally sensible approaches by integrating across the socioeconomic and climatic continuum, therefore providing opportunities facilitating comprehensive solutions that maximize benefits and limit unintended consequences.
Keywords
urban, sustainability, adaptation, mitigation, climate
Discipline
Urban Studies and Planning
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Environmental Research Letters
Volume
10
Issue
6
First Page
1
Last Page
6
ISSN
1748-9326
Identifier
10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/061001
Publisher
IOP Publishing: Open Access Journals / IOP Publishing
Citation
GEORGESCU, Matei, CHOW, Winston T. L., WANG, Z. H., BRAZEL, Anthony J., TRAPIDO-LURIE, Barbara, ROTH, M., & BENSON, Valeria.(2015). Prioritizing urban sustainability solutions: Coordinated approaches must incorporate scale-dependent built environment induced effects. Environmental Research Letters, 10(6), 1-6.
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/061001